CVE-2022-43782

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Affected versions of Atlassian Crowd allow an attacker to authenticate as the crowd application via security misconfiguration and subsequent ability to call privileged endpoints in Crowd's REST API under the {{usermanagement}} path. This vulnerability can only be exploited by IPs specified under the crowd application allowlist in the Remote Addresses configuration, which is {{none}} by default. The affected versions are all versions 3.x.x, versions 4.x.x before version 4.4.4, and versions 5.x.x before 5.0.3

Affected products

Atlassian Crowd: from 3.0.0 before 4.4.4; from 5.0.0 before 5.0.3 — fixed in 4.4.4, 5.0.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Atlassian Crowd 4.4.4, 5.0.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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